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THE GLOBAL GATEWAY: A resource for educators and students
Global Gateway is a partnership of media, educator, secondary school, and university resources that engages the next generation on current and systemic international issues that shape our future. Pulitzer Center-funded reporting projects from around the world are the basis for Global Gateway high school and university programs.
Through this education initiative the Pulitzer Center engages teens and young adults in class and online by supporting development of issue-specific lesson plans, bringing journalists from the field to classrooms and promoting online dialogues about critical global affairs.
The mission of Global Gateway is twofold: to provide students with fresh information on global issues, and to help them think critically about the creation and dissemination of news and information, with the intent of building a market for quality international reporting in the decades ahead.
The Pulitzer Gateways are the online educational portals that bring together the reporting in an easy to navigate format for use by students and faculty. They offer opportunities for students to connect with the journalists and their peers about global issues via the web. Through the Gateways, students can dig deep into the reporting, discuss it online and share their own stories through user-generated uploads of video and commentary, expanding a global conversation on under-reported international issue. Go directly to the latest Pulitzer Gateways
The Pulitzer Center seeks educators and schools interested in partnering with us to expand our reach. Global Gateway resources are also adaptable to general public and community events. Click here to request information.
Global Gateway also incorporates the Pulitzer Center’s University Liaison Network. This initiative links Pulitzer Center-appointed university liaisons with the Center to raise awareness of international issues on college campuses around the country. Interested in becoming a liaison? Click here
SPECIAL FEATURE:
Mexico: Dangerous Music
Drug Violence in Culiacán
In June 2009, in response to President Obama's recent meeting this spring with Mexican President Calderón to discuss, among other things, the major challenges of drug violence and the drug trade in Mexico, The CHOICES Program released a lesson plan built around the Pulitzer Center's reporting project, Mexico: Trouble in Culiacán. More specifically, the lesson plan builds off of the Pulitzer Center project's In Focus video documentary featured on public television's Foreign Exchange. The lesson plan, titled "Dangerous Music," is part of CHOICES' Teaching with the News initiative and a supplement to the CHOICES unit Caught Between Two Worlds: Mexico at the Crossroads.
The lesson plan helps students explore the effects of drug violence on Culiacán, a city in northwestern Mexico, and on popular songs known as narcocorridos.
Click here to view the "Mexico: Trouble in Culiacán" reporting project page where you can find links to the CHOICES' lesson and larger education unit on Mexico.
Global Gateway: Women-Children-Crisis
In crisis areas, it is often women and children who suffer most. Countries with underdeveloped economies and countries at war face countless difficulties, but stories of the particular misery faced by women and children are often overlooked - resulting in far-reaching human, social and economic consequences. This Pulitzer Gateway pulls from a number of reporting projects around the globe that illuminate the adversity and outright crimes endured by women and children.
Among the reporting projects highlighted by this Gateway: Meredith May focuses on child indentured servants in Nepal, some as young as 6-years-old. Michael Kavanagh reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo on the conflict where armed groups use rape to wreck or uproot communities, turning victims into outcasts. Alaa Majeed tells the story of her country of Iraq from both professional as well as personal points of view. Ruthie Ackerman and Andre Lambertson bring to light the struggles of former child soldiers adjusting to life in their country of Liberia and in diaspora communites in the US. Click here to begin your exploration of these issues and engage in a global conversation.
Global Gateway
India: Conflicts Within
The latest Pulitzer Gateway explores journalist Jason Motlagh's extensive reporting from the world's largest democracy and its turbulent rise as an economic power. Motlagh will travel with Pulitzer Center representatives to high schools and universities in the spring of 2009 and students around the world will participate on the interactive web portal. Go here to learn how your students and school can get involved in the discussion.
The Pulitzer Gateway on India is live! The Gateway is a place where students and teachers can interact directly with Pulitzer Center reporter Jason Motlagh - and with each other - to learn about and discuss India's internal conflicts. Jason traveled around India from August 2007 to March 2008, seeking out a side of the country rarely seen. His reporting is divided into three important issues that loom large as it seeks to continue a dramatic rise into the 21st century: those of economic, religious/ethnic, and environmental uncertainty. Learn More
Global Gateway: Water Wars (Ethiopia and Kenya)
This initiative builds on a multimedia reporting project that explores water scarcity and access issues in Ethiopia and Kenya. Journalists from the Seattle-based Common Language Project will visit classrooms in fall 2008 and students around the country, and world, can participate through the intreactive Pulitzer Gateway. Interested in joining the discussions? Click here to learn how your school can become involved.
The Pulitzer Gateway on Water Wars is live! The Gateway is a place where students and teachers can interact directly with Pulitzer Center reporters — and with each other — to learn about and discuss the importance of water around the world. Students can also navigate the reporting through a dynamic 3D geographic browser, engage with students in Kenya about the role of water in their life, and even upload their own videos about what water means to them. Learn More
Global Gateway: HIV-AIDS in the Caribbean
This initiative builds on a multi-media reporting project that explores the HIV-AIDS crisis in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Florida. In April 2008 we visited schools with the journalists and we continue to follow up with students online.
- Visit the "Heroes of HIV" project page where you will find the articles, videos, and links to the interactive website.
Students:
-Post your questions and comments on the student blog.
Teachers:
-To join the teacher’s forum where you can share ideas and lesson plans with other teachers, as well as explore existing lesson plans, visit the Teacher's Forum on HIV in the Caribbean
Global Gateway: Liberia
Global Gateway: Liberia took place in January 2008, with additional school visits in April. Learn more and find lesson plans and related links.
Visit the Global Gateway: Liberia student blog
Global Gateway: Iraq
Global Gateway Iraq took place during fall 2007. Learn more and find lesson plans and related links for this project.
Visit the Iraq Global Gateway student blog.
Global Gateway: Mozambique
Global Gateway: Mozambique was the pilot project conducted in the spring of 2007. Learn more and find lesson plans and related links for this project.
Global Gateway: Georgetown
Georgetown students participated in Global Gateway during the spring 2008 semester by undertaking awareness-raising campaigns about issues stemming from Pulitzer Center reporting projects. Students gave their campaign presentations during class in late February and continued to hold awareness-raising events both on and off campus throughout the semester. Georgetown students also participated in Global Gateway last fall.
Learn more about past and present Global Gateway: Georgetown projects.
